God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

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We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

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Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had to have been placed in its orbit centuries before in a trajectory that would make it appear at that special moment of time to announce the birth of a special child. Just as there is divine design in the universe, so each of us has been placed in our own orbits in this life to love, to serve, to help light the world.

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We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.

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We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do.

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Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

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Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

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Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

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Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

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If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

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